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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: waspy on 07 December 2008, 13:39:28
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Don't forget everyone :y
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Don't forget everyone :y
As if we would. :y :y :y
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MCE set. So thats my 1Gb HDD in it filled up with all the repeats on Dave ;D
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Don't forget everyone :y
As if we would. :y :y :y
Hey mate, some do ;)
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Don't forget everyone :y
As if we would. :y :y :y
Hey mate, some do ;)
I thought it was quiet on here at about 8.30 last week, then it suddenly clicked, I was missing TG ::)
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Don't forget everyone :y
As if we would. :y :y :y
Hey mate, some do ;)
Then they should be shot. ;D ;D ;D ;D :y :y
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JUST STARTED ;D
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Auto timer didnt turn over. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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T'was awesome tonight, as always! :y
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T'was awesome tonight, as always! :y
Missed most of it, timer didnt flick over and then I got a phone call, . . .why cant women unstand not to phone whrn TG is on the TV. ;D ;D
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Just watched it on BBCi! Brilliant!
As much as I think the Marina is/was crap .... it's a shame they destroyed one. :-? :y
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THe Lada was more advanced than the Marina :o
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wtf are you all going on about? Ladas and Marinas?
For crying out loud, the 26k Cateram WAS FASTER THAN THE MILLION POUND VARON around the test track. Has nobody noticed...? And its British...i think? Or has some child oil baron bought them out?
What an awesome little car.
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wtf are you all going on about? Ladas and Marinas?
For crying out loud, the 26k Cateram WAS FASTER THAN THE MILLION POUND VARON around the test track. Has nobody noticed...? And its British...i think? Or has some child oil baron bought them out?
What an awesome little car.
Agreed. You could tell just by how it went around the track it was faster than that Nazi gocart :y Very quick & nimble, just what you need :) :) :)
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Imagine what the one with the fireblade engine in it would be like....or a Dax which has a stifer chassis!
Good to see a Marina get exactly what it deserved
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Imagine what the one with the fireblade engine in it would be like....or a Dax which has a stifer chassis!
Good to see a Marina get exactly what it deserved
Is the Dax the one that looks similar? If so, I had one of those event days in one with a locked up diff - never had so much fun in 1st and 2nd gear ;D
The Marina, and subsequently Ital, represented everything bad about BL
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The Marina, and subsequently Ital, represented everything bad about BL
Completely agree .... have you driven one? :o But if in another 15 / 20 years you were looking for a reasonable door for your Omega, you'd be a bit miffed if you saw a presentable Omega being battered around a track & then set fire to. ;) :y :y
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The Marina, and subsequently Ital, represented everything bad about BL
Completely agree .... have you driven one? :o But if in another 15 / 20 years you were looking for a reasonable door for your Omega, you'd be a bit miffed if you saw a presentable Omega being battered around a track & then set fire to. ;) :y :y
Oh yes, driven lots of Itals both vans at work and a saloon which an ex had, and a mate when I was younger had a fascination with Marinas. Crap, crap, crap. Made even Fords and Vauxhalls of the time look good.
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Imagine what the one with the fireblade engine in it would be like....or a Dax which has a stifer chassis!
Good to see a Marina get exactly what it deserved
What about a 4WD version with a spare engine to get you home in case some tit breaks one.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qtfY0Ps74
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my favourite bit was "What if I wanted to do a beach assault with the Royal Marines?"
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my favourite bit was "What if I wanted to do a beach assault with the Royal Marines?"
Fair play, that was quite deep, I expected it to conk out...
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...... that was quite deep, I expected it to conk out...
I was really surprised it didn't! :-?
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Imagine what the one with the fireblade engine in it would be like....or a Dax which has a stifer chassis!
Good to see a Marina get exactly what it deserved
British Leyland really did produce some prize shite in the seventies.....The marina was one of the worst cars ever made. :-? :-?
Although I did own an Austin Princess in the late seventies that had ABS.....anti -lock brakes.............of a sort.......but only because the stoppers were so piss poor that it was impossibe to lock the wheels under any conditions. ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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Imagine what the one with the fireblade engine in it would be like....or a Dax which has a stifer chassis!
Good to see a Marina get exactly what it deserved
British Leyland really did produce some prize shite in the seventies.....The marina was one of the worst cars ever made. :-? :-?
Although I did own an Austin Princess in the late seventies that had ABS.....anti -lock brakes.............of a sort.......but only because the stoppers were so piss poor that it was impossibe to lock the wheels under any conditions. ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
Not just marinas - all the shit from 70s and early 80s.
Ital,Allegro,Dolly,Princess/Ambassador etc. They must have been bad, as I remember one of the motoring mags saying how good the maestro and montego were, and they weren't great!
Wasn't until they tied in with Honda that things got back on track, and they made decent cars, reasonably well put together (I'll exclude the 800 from that as it was built cheap for the yanks)
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70s and 80s cars
Basically the Marina - Ital was a joke. Morris Minor suspension!
Other cars of that era were better, Escort was pretty good despite cart springs, nothing wrong with the Cortinas
GM had some good cars, Chevette was a nightmare to work on engine wise.
Rootes also had some nice cars - I used to own a Sunbeam hatch - descended from an Avenger.
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Maestro - not a bad car, roomy - better than the WWD Escorts, this is from the Mk2 Astra era.
Astra was OK for what it was but 1800 and up were overpowered.
1300 was surprisingly good if you thrashed the nuts off it
The corresponding Escort was shite
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Maestro - not a bad car, roomy - better than the WWD Escorts, this is from the Mk2 Astra era.
Astra was OK for what it was but 1800 and up were overpowered.
1300 was surprisingly good if you thrashed the nuts off it
The corresponding Escort was shite
Astra Mk1 was crap, Mk2 even worse. Escort Mk3 bloody lethal (yet to drive a fwd Escort and not crash it - and I've driven a few!). Maestro hatchback let down with dreadful lift-off oversteer - the vans we had at work didn't suffer this, but had a dangerous issue of no front end traction under braking in the wet.
Everyone produced shite in the 80s!
My brother and my best mates missus both had Shitvettes, I thought they were quite nice to work on :-/
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Thought the shovitt/viva engine was pretty simple to work on.
The HS engine was a bit of a challenge for someone who had never done a full rebuild before,especially as it was rebuilt in a small garden shed with no door or window in winter time. It did run well afterwards though. :)
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Lets face it, there wasn't many cars that where any good back in the seventies. Please don't come back & say "oh i had a ????? & it was fantastic" they where crap :'( The early seventies cars where good, but then something went wrong at around 1974 :-/ How any of the major manufactures stayed alive is beyond me :o :o
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Only Clarkson could come up with something as mad as those Fiesta tests. "What would you do if you were in a shopping mall and you got chased by baddies in a Corvette?".......priceless!! ;D ;D ;D
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Lets face it, there wasn't many cars that where any good back in the seventies. Please don't come back & say "oh i had a ????? & it was fantastic" they where crap :'( The early seventies cars where good, but then something went wrong at around 1974 :-/ How any of the major manufactures stayed alive is beyond me :o :o
I had a mini....and they are fantastic.....
Ok they were from the 50's and 60's.....
Now waits for MarkDTM to pass his comments on them ;D
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Lets face it, there wasn't many cars that where any good back in the seventies. Please don't come back & say "oh i had a ????? & it was fantastic" they where crap :'( The early seventies cars where good, but then something went wrong at around 1974 :-/ How any of the major manufactures stayed alive is beyond me :o :o
I had a mini....and they are fantastic.....
Ok they were from the 50's and 60's.....
Now waits for MarkDTM to pass his comments on them ;D
The mini was a great car, but obviously once in the 80s (and 90s) a bit long in the tooth. Still, the first of the BMW minis are bloody awful. Not had the displeasure of the current one, nor no particular desire to...
My brother's girlfriend has first type BMW mini - remember he will only consider BMW in the same way our own Martin Imber will only consider Sony - and I detest the thing. Horrible ride, uncomfy seats, handles reasonably well, but better stuff out there. Willing little engine though.
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Lets face it, there wasn't many cars that where any good back in the seventies. Please don't come back & say "oh i had a ????? & it was fantastic" they where crap :'( The early seventies cars where good, but then something went wrong at around 1974 :-/ How any of the major manufactures stayed alive is beyond me :o :o
I had a mini....and they are fantastic.....
Ok they were from the 50's and 60's.....
Now waits for MarkDTM to pass his comments on them ;D
The mini was a great car, but obviously once in the 80s (and 90s) a bit long in the tooth. Still, the first of the BMW minis are bloody awful. Not had the displeasure of the current one, nor no particular desire to...
My brother's girlfriend has first type BMW mini - remember he will only consider BMW in the same way our own Martin Imber will only consider Sony - and I detest the thing. Horrible ride, uncomfy seats, handles reasonably well, but better stuff out there. Willing little engine though.
I saw a British mini and a German Mini parked next to each other recently......The German mini was HUGE by comparison.
Mini in name only really .........bit of a fat bast##d in my opinion. :y :y
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Only Clarkson could come up with something as mad as those Fiesta tests. "What would you do if you were in a shopping mall and you got chased by baddies in a Corvette?".......priceless!! ;D ;D ;D
Yes, and how the heck did they pursuade the mall and individual shop owners to allow that one in this H&S, along with litigation era?? :o :o :o :o
The insurance premuim for that stunt must have been huge........just take one shop front out and you are talking £30 grand minimum!!! :o :o :o :o
Fantastic! :D :D ;) ;) ;)
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Lets face it, there wasn't many cars that where any good back in the seventies. Please don't come back & say "oh i had a ????? & it was fantastic" they where crap :'( The early seventies cars where good, but then something went wrong at around 1974 :-/ How any of the major manufactures stayed alive is beyond me :o :o
I had a mini....and they are fantastic.....
Ok they were from the 50's and 60's.....
Now waits for MarkDTM to pass his comments on them ;D
The mini was a great car, but obviously once in the 80s (and 90s) a bit long in the tooth. Still, the first of the BMW minis are bloody awful. Not had the displeasure of the current one, nor no particular desire to...
My brother's girlfriend has first type BMW mini - remember he will only consider BMW in the same way our own Martin Imber will only consider Sony - and I detest the thing. Horrible ride, uncomfy seats, handles reasonably well, but better stuff out there. Willing little engine though.
I saw a British mini and a German Mini parked next to each other recently......The German mini was HUGE by comparison.
Mini in name only really .........bit of a fat bast##d in my opinion. :y :y
Well the Germans always did have an inflated ego!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)